﻿This file 00_ReadMe_2024_Zines_Artists_book templates.txt was generated on 2024-03-31 by JANA DAMBROGIO, KAI ALEXIS SMITH.


GENERAL INFORMATION


1. Title of Dataset:
"Zines or artists’ book template”, Harvard Dataverse.


2. Caption: 
Captions created with each individual zine or artists’ book template


3. Alt text: 
Alt text created with each individual zine or artists’ book template.  


Zine or artists’ book template. Folding pattern for each template can be made out of a single sheet of paper. The image contains a series of criss-crossing lines, identifying the final crease pattern once the sheet has been folded. 


Each template includes a key for the user to understand the line patterns, which indicate when to fold the paper to create peaks away from or toward the table, when to tuck, or when to use a piece of tape. The Unlocking History Research Group developed a standardized system that assigns each feature a color and a unique line pattern. Their system makes each feature accessible and ensures that the folding templates are still legible if reproduced in black and white. These features may include:


Mountain: Marked by magenta-colored repeating parallel line pattern, a crease that points upwards when the sheet is laid flat. When unfolded the crease looks like a mountain.   


Valley: Marked by blue-colored short-dotted pattern, a crease that points downwards when the sheet is laid flat. When unfolded the crease looks like a valley. 


Tuck: Marked by diagonal black lines, an area that indicates when something is inserted into a pocket. 


Tape: Marked by a black outlined likeness of a piece of adhesive tape with zigzag short edges.


4. Author Information
  A. Principal Investigators Contact Information
        Name: Wunsch Conservation Laboratory Staff, Department of Distinctive Collections, and Rotch Architecture and Planning Librarian,
        Institution: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
        Email: conservationlab@mit.edu  
        
5. Date of data collection (single date, range, approximate date):
2022–2024.


6. Geographic location of data collection:
Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America.


7. Information about funding sources that supported the collection of the data:
The Massachusetts Institute of Technologies Libraries.


SHARING/ACCESS INFORMATION


1. Licenses/restrictions placed on the data:
Copyright © 2024-31-March MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY. Licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License except where otherwise noted.


2. Links to publications that cite or use the data:
N/A.


3. Links to other publicly accessible locations of the data:
Blizzard Box and Franklin fold: https://www.artofthefold.com/
Feature Key


4. Links/relationships to ancillary data sets:
We adopted the feature key used to make the templates to symbolize mountain crease, valley crease, tuck, and tape from the Unlocking History Research Group’s key to read substrate maps of locked letters found in https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/uh in Letterlocking: The Hidden History of the Letter By Jana Dambrogio and Daniel Starza Smith, 
with the Unlocking History Research Group and http://www.letterlocking.org.


5. Was data derived from another source?
Yes, Hedi Kyle's inventions, the Blizzard Box and the Franklin Fold can be found in Hedi Kyle and Ulla Warchol's book The Art of the Fold. For more information and step-by-step guides, consult the publication.


6. Recommended citation for this dataset:
Dambrogio, Jana; Araya, Nicole; ​​and Kai Alexis Smith, MIT Libraries, "Zine or artists’ book template: “ReadMe for Zines or Artists’ Book Templates", https://dataverse.harvard.edu/dataverse/zinetemplates, Harvard Dataverse.
Blizzard box and Franklin fold structures invented by Hedi Kyle.


DATA & FILE OVERVIEW
1. File/Dataset List:
*File. 01_Hedi_Kyle_blizzard_box_template_01_tray https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/5R8CHO


*File. 02_8_page_book_3_panel_cut_template_from_1_sheet https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/EEIO2


*File. 03_8_page_book_2_panel_center_slice_template_from_1_sheet
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ITBUPX


*File. 04_14_page_book_Kyle_Franklin_fold_template_from_1_sheet
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8BCLMN


*File. 05_3_page_book_hexagonal_flex_template_from_01_sheet
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ZS5XYV


*File. 06_8_page_book_T_cut_template_from_1_sheet
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/N8OFWM


*File. 07_16_page_snake_book_template_from_1_sheet
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/GZV7JO


*File. 08_4_page_book_template_from_1_sheet
https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/OW7BXE


2. Relationship between files, if important:
Each template can be found in a dataset that contains the following files:
* A PNG file 
* and accessible PDF-accessible file contains a caption for the template in the PNG file
* A readme file (s).


3. Additional related data collected that was not included in the current data package:


4. Are there multiple versions of the dataset?
No.


METHODOLOGICAL INFORMATION


1. Description of methods used for collection/generation of data:
N/A.


2. Methods for processing the data:
N/A.


3. Instrument- or software-specific information needed to interpret the data:
N/A.


4. Standards and calibration information, if appropriate:
N/A.


5. Environmental/experimental conditions:
N/A.


6. Describe any quality-assurance procedures performed on the data:
* The team used Adobe Acrobat Accessibility and “Use guided actions” (formerly action wizard), tools to pass a series of tests to verify that the PDF documents pass as accessible PDFs 
* The team met with MITs Accessibility Office to review a selection of our files and check the accessibility of the documentation. 


7. People involved with sample collection, processing, analysis and/or submission:
Illustrations created by Jana Dambrogio and Kai Alexis Smith, 2022–2024.
Feature identification system and key found on crease pattern templates created by: Nicole Araya and Jana Dambrogio, and the Unlocking HIstory Research Group, 2020.
Blizzard box and Franklin fold structures invented by Hedi Kyle.
ReadMe files edited by Jana Dambrogio and Kai Alexis Smith, 2022–2024.


8. STYLE GUIDE – TECHNICAL INFORMATION
Vision-accessible HEX color values, line pattern, and meaning
* EC008C – magenta parallel-line pattern (mountain fold)
* 00AEEF – blue, dot pattern (valley fold)


9. Acknowledgments
Thank you to the Accessibility office at MIT, especially Kate Quinn, Mary Ziegler, and Rich Caloggero, Harvard Dataverse Staff.


10. Key Words
Collections, libraries, archives, distinctive, conservation, preservation, cultural, heritage, PDF-accessible, Zines, Contemporary, Artists’ Books, Books, handmade books, accessibility, inclusive design, alt text, templates, 1-page book, bookbinding, origami, letterlocking, architecture, mountain, valley tuck, crease.